Well you can read my previous blog post that I’m number 5 for the keyword - kabonfootprint. That was a couple of hours ago, now my blog ranks on 3rd position, that quite good, but there is so much time till the end of the kabonfootprint seo contest and I’m not certain that i can keep this 3rd place, but for this is a huge succes, to be on 3rd position even for a day in this international seo contest.
August 27, 2008
Wow, I’ve advanced to number 5, but the bad thing is that I’m almost out of ressources, I don’t have any more links to dedicate to this kabonfootprint seo contest.
I hope I will find some way to stay in top 10.
If you wan’t to support me, you can put a link to this site with anchor - kabonfootprint
August 22, 2008
There is a little update for today, as far as I can see I’ve advanced to position 6 on google.com for kabonfootprint. Yesterday I was at 10th place. Hope i will stay in top 10 till the end of kabonfootprint
Kabonfootprint contest continues. I’ve added a little php script that shows how many hours or days are left till the end of the kabonfootprint contest. I’m still unaware what kabonfootprint stands for, but hope when I win the kabonfootprint I’ll find out what’s all about
August 19, 2008
Website Marketing Strategies - Reciprocal Links
Although it’s very old, another good website marketing strategy is building reciprocal links for your site. Let’s say that you’ve managed to build a site where you have great content, great tools or both. All you need now is people to find out about it.
Increasing your link popularity with reciprocal links will help your site to go up in the search engines. Although this kind of links are not so powerful anymore they can still give you some results. Besides the search engine rankings you will also receive direct traffic from the site you are linked with.
The link exchange process is not a hard one but it has it’s secrets and tricks. There are many factors and things to avoid that have to be taken in consideration. You have to know how to convince a webmaster to trade links with you, what sites to avoid and what sites to link with.
The first thing that you need to know is what is a reciprocal link. A reciprocal link is some kind of agreement between two webmasters. Both of them place on their site a link that points to the other one’s website. This is some kind of win-win situation because both websites benefit form this linking, receiving direct traffic and increasing link popularity.
This website marketing strategy also involves a little trust. You can make links exchange with many sites but you don’t have the time to frequently monitor them. So you’ll just have to trust that the other webmaster will keep your link on his site. This situation could become really frustrating when you see that you still keep a link for a website but you’re not receiving one back.
Don’t think about this website marketing strategy as a quick scheme to get tons of traffic. I can ensure you that is not like that. There are many sites that have thousands of banners on them, but only half of them really work. Try to link your site with related and confident websites. This way you will also avoid linking to any bad neighborhoods.
In conclusion, even if the reciprocal links are an old website marketing strategy comparing to the new and powerful one way links they still can bring you some results. Just try to make your links exchanges as safe as possible.
